Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of January 18, 2024.
1,060 day of the russian large-scale invasion and 3,974 day of the russia’s war against Ukraine begins.
Operational information as of 8:00 a.m. January 18, 2024 regarding the Russian invasion.
The 160th day of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.
In total, 174 combat clashes were recorded over the past 24 hours.
Yesterday, the enemy launched one missile strike on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements using two missiles, and engaged 2,147 kamikaze drones to destroy them. The enemy also launched about four thousand artillery shells, 154 of them from multiple launch rocket systems.
Over the past 24 hours, the missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces hit two areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment and two air defense systems of the Russian invaders.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy tried once in vain to advance in the Vovchansk area.
In the Kupyansk direction, eight attacks by the invaders took place over the past 24 hours. The Defense Forces repelled the enemy’s assault actions near the settlements of Golubivka, Stepovaya Novoselivka and Kruglyakivka.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 13 times. He tried to advance near Kopanky, Tverdokhlibovye, Makiivka and Terni.
In the Siversky direction, our troops repelled an enemy attack near the settlement of Bilogorivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy launched 26 attacks on the positions of our troops in the area of Chasoiv Yar and in the direction of Stupochok and Bila Hora.
In the past day, in the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked Ukrainian units 19 times near Toretsk, Dilyivka, Krymske and Shcherbynivka.
In the Pokrovsky direction, over the past day, our defenders stopped 79 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of Zelene Pole, Vodyany Drugy, Yelizavetivka, Promyen, Lysivka, Shevchenko, Zvirovye, Udachny, Uspenivka, Sribny, Dachny, Ulakliv and Yantarny.
In the Novopavlivske direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled two attacks by the invaders in the area of Velyka Novoselka and Konstantinopol.
In the Orikhiv direction, the enemy tried to advance once in the direction of Novodanylivka, but was repulsed.
In the Prydniprovsk direction, the Defense Forces successfully repelled two enemy assaults.
In the Hulyaipole direction, the enemy did not conduct active operations.
In the Kursk region, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 16 attacks by the invaders over the past day.
In the Volyn and Polesie directions, no signs of the formation of offensive enemy groups were detected.
Our soldiers are inflicting significant losses on the occupation forces in manpower and equipment and are actively undermining the enemy’s offensive potential in the rear.
In total, over the past day, the losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 1,340 soldiers. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized 13 armored combat vehicles, 21 artillery systems, 13 operational-tactical level UAVs, and 69 vehicles of the occupiers.
